What a Restored Nikon Microscope Showed Inside a 1980s Motorola Microcontroller

A single chip bought on a whim during a late-night scroll turned into an excuse to rescue an old laboratory microscope and finally see what its silicon actually contains. The part in question is a Motorola MC68701, a microcontroller built in the early 1980s. It packs an enhanced 6800-family processor, 2 kilobytes of ultraviolet-erasable program [...]

Jul 6, 2026 0 0

What a Restored Nikon Microscope Showed Inside a 1980s Motorola Microcontroller

A single chip bought on a whim during a late-night scroll turned into an excuse to rescue an old laboratory microscope and finally see what its silicon actually contains. The part in question is a Motorola MC68701, a microcontroller built in the early 1980s. It packs an enhanced 6800-family processor, 2 kilobytes of ultraviolet-erasable program [...]

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